Home Guru

By Bill Primavera I can’t remember the last time I climbed a flight of stairs. For the past five years, I’ve been happily ensconced in a one-level home at Trump Park and, yes, I probably haven’t climbed a flight of

By Bill Primavera As a realtor, it is one of my jobs to keep up with current housing trends, but I have never professed to be a prognosticator, knowing what’s coming down the pike. I rely on the wisdom of

By Bill Primavera Whenever I take stock of things or situations that please me, my home is always on top of the list as a source of contentment, whether a new but small studio apartment in Greenwich Village when I

By Bill Primavera With every listing I’ve ever taken as a realtor, I follow a checklist of musts to recommend to seller clients as they prepare their homes for sale. First among these recommendations is consideration of the front door.

By Bill Primavera For many years my journalistic moniker has been The Home Guru, a column originally adopted to help promote my business as a realtor, working with home buyers and sellers. But through the years, this column seems to

By Bill Primavera When my wife Margaret and I ran an antiques shop in Brooklyn Heights called The Saturday Shop (which was a misnomer because we were also open on Sundays), we had a weekly customer named Abe Stransky who

By Bill Primavera The pandemic has inspired a surge in gun sales, I have read, not really understanding why. But research shows that having firearms in the house won’t necessarily help in a dangerous moment –and it can heighten other